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My favorite subject in this term was “Guión I” or Script. In the class the teacher speaks to us about different topics such as the type of characters and their motivations, the structure of the script, among other things. The teacher gives to us examples with different films (all the movies where very good, like The Veredict, Sicario or Chinatown) and that is very entertaining because the main contents is related to the movies. The objective of the subject is learning how to write scripts and for that we have to write different things like a synopsis. It is interesting because it is a subject where creativity can be developed by creating stories.  This subject is my favorite because I learn so much about how write stories in the script, because the teacher explains very well and because I always liked write stories. 

  Christopher Nolan is a film director and screenwriter born in England. He has movies like Memento, Inception, The Dark Knight trilogy, Interstellar, Following, Dunkirk or Tenet. Christopher Nolan, since he was a child, was interested in filmmaking and released his first movie, Following, in 1995 at the age of 25 years old. Christopher Nolan studied English literature in the University College London. This may have influenced in the themes that he exposes in his films. Christopher Nolan has received many awards and honor.   He constantly explores philosophical themes in his films, as well as playing with the time like he does in Memento. And that is why I like it so much and because the films of Batman that he made were the best films of superhero that I have ever seen. He is one of the most important directors today both for his commercial success and for film criticism.

  I study film and tv career, where they teach you how to create cinema. From my point of view the cinema doesn’t make the world a better place because that is not the objective of this art or the art in general. But certainly, this art could make the world a better place in the sense that it helps to entertain, also helps to show a reality that we don’t know, and cinema can teach you something. Cinema also generates empathy with characters or situations. But that it is not the objective of the cinema, it is just a possibility on the creation. I believe this because the art should not be seen as something functional. I mean you don’t wonder what beauty is for or something.   I maybe help in the process of creating new stories, or something like that. And I hope that in this process I make the world a better place. 

  My favorite food is roast chicken with fried potatoes. It is something simple but since I was a child I liked. I don’t usually eat it because I know it is bad for my health. But when I have the possibilities to eat this food, I take pleasure in it.     It is made just with chicken and potatoes, but that is good because it is not hard to cook. I don’t know why I like this food so much, but I think that is because my grandmother cooked it for me when I was a child. I probably like that food because brings me good memories of when I played with my friend and my dog in that house, or just because I liked the combination of those two ingredients. I don’t know.